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Enter the Dragon (1973)

★★★★½ — Enter the Dragon (1973)

Enter the Dragon arrived in 1973 as a co-production between Raymond Chow's Golden Harvest and Warner Bros., a partnership that was genuinely unusual for the time, Hollywood studios having largely ignored Hong Kong action cinema up to that point. The budget was a modest $850,000, which makes the film's eventual worldwide gross of over $21 million all the more remarkable. Director Robert Clouse was a journeyman filmmaker with little notable work before or after this, and the project was really shaped around Bruce Lee, who had already become a phenomenon in Asia with films like The Big Boss and Fist of Fury. Tragically, Lee died in July 1973, just six days before the film's Hong Kong premiere, which only amplified the enormous attention the film received on its release.

A-Z World Movie Tour Hong Kong The martial arts movie that really broke Hollywood. Sure there was martial arts movies before this but nothing smashed like this. Bruce Lee is a captivating and mesmerising performer. Yes the acting is a little cliche. Yes the story is a little hammy but it's just a great movie. There will never be a movie star with the aura of Bruce Lee again. It inspired so many including a young Jackie Chan who is an extra here... and many more. Even videogames such as Mortal Kombat and Tekken get their roots from this great movie.

Rating: ★★★★½ | Year: 1973 | Watched: 2025-06-26

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